Edgbaston House
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Edgbaston House is a highrise commercial
building in on Duchess Place, Birmingham
. It was built by Laing Development Co Ltd. and the consulting engineers were Ove Arup
. Construction cost £1,720,000. It was the result of work by Calthorpe Estates to attract businesses to the Hagley Road and Five Ways
by promoting the construction of office blocks there. It is part of the Duchess Place estate which consists of office blocks totalling 200000 sq ft (18,580.6 m²). They are owned by the Kenmore Group, who acquired the estate from Chelsfield. Tenants of the building include the Islamic Bank of Britain
and various medical groups.
Commerce
While business refers to the value-creating activities of an organization for profit, commerce means the whole system of an economy that constitutes an environment for business. The system includes legal, economic, political, social, cultural, and technological systems that are in operation in any...
building in on Duchess Place, Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
. It was built by Laing Development Co Ltd. and the consulting engineers were Ove Arup
Ove Arup
Sir Ove Nyquist Arup, CBE, MICE, MIStructE known as Ove Arup, was a leading Anglo-Danish engineer and generally considered to be one of the foremost architectural structural engineers of his time...
. Construction cost £1,720,000. It was the result of work by Calthorpe Estates to attract businesses to the Hagley Road and Five Ways
Five Ways, Birmingham
Five Ways is an area of Birmingham, England. It takes its name from a major road junction, now a busy roundabout to the south-west of the city centre which lies at the outward end of Broad Street, where the Birmingham Middle ring road crosses the start of the A456 .-History:The name of Five Ways...
by promoting the construction of office blocks there. It is part of the Duchess Place estate which consists of office blocks totalling 200000 sq ft (18,580.6 m²). They are owned by the Kenmore Group, who acquired the estate from Chelsfield. Tenants of the building include the Islamic Bank of Britain
Islamic Bank of Britain
The Islamic Bank of Britain plc is a commercial bank in the United Kingdom, established in August 2004 to offer Sharia compliant financial service products to British Muslims. The bank has seven branches in London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leicester...
and various medical groups.